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ILLINOIS ENGINEERING FIELD HANDBOOK - NOTICE 33

United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
2118 W. Park Court, Champaign, IL 61821
Phone: 217/353-6600 Fax: 217/353-6676 Website: www.il.nrcs.usda.gov

DATE: May 14, 2008

SUBJECT:  National Engineering Handbook Part 645, Engineering Technical Materials

Purpose:  To update Illinois Supplements to the Engineering Field Handbook, Chapters 5 and 7 - 18

Expiration Date:  Upon receipt.

Explanation: This notice is to announce the availability of additional digitized and updated Illinois supplements to the Engineering Field Handbook (EFH). Illinois supplements to the EFH are now complete in digital form for all chapters.

Some of the tabular data in the Chapter 8 supplements have been enlarged for legibility, utilizing multiple pages where needed; however, content has not been changed. The following list outlines the updated and new Illinois supplements released with this notice. An updated table of contents for Illinois EFH supplements is also included.

Existing IL supplement: Replaced by:
IL 5-25 through 5-29 Obsolete
IL 7-47 Obsolete (replaced by job sheet in FOTG)
8-100.1 and 8-100.2 dated 3/85 8-100.1 and 8-100.2 dated 5/08
--- 8-100.3 dated 5/08
14-110.1 Obsolete (same as national EFH 14-65 and 14-66)
IL 18, 18-1 through 18-24 Obsolete (same as IL 10-64.1 through 10-64.24 in the
Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook (Part 651 NEH))

The Illinois NRCS engineering website will be updated to include the new digital versions of the Illinois supplements at http://www.il.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/engineer/EFH-SupNotes/EFH-suplmnts.html.

Filing Instructions:

All holders of Engineering Field Handbook binders should:

  1. Remove all Illinois supplements which have been updated, added, or identified as obsolete from the EFH.
  2. Print out the attached updated three supplements on green paper and file in the EFH. Illinois supplements are numbered to correspond to the page number of the national EFH, and are filed directly after the national page with the same base number.
  3. Print out the attached table of contents and file at the beginning of the EFH, replacing the existing table of contents.

Any questions regarding this submittal should be directed to Ruth Book, State Conservation Engineer at (217) 353-6626.

Ruth Book Signature
 RUTH BOOK
State Conservation Engineer
 

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